Would the women and children have been seated with the men? In the
synagogues this was certainly not the case, nor was it in the early
Christian church. I wonder if the groups of 50 were men, and the women and
children were seated apart from (CWRIS) them in another section/area?

> If any women or children were attached to a man they would sit near him
and
> share whatever food he was given. It would be fairly easy to count the
rows
> and then calculate the total amount of men (100 in the case of the 5000
men
> and 80 in the case of the 4000 men), but nearly impossible to count the
> women and children clustered around the men.